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The Uttermost Farthing

by: R. Austin Freeman

Publication date: 2010-01-03

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, mystery, fiction

Language: English

Item Size: 877.6M

Librivox recording of The Uttermost Farthing by R. Austin Freeman.
Read by MaryAnn Spiegel.

Humphrey Challoner is a solitary old man who spent a lifetime collecting for his private museum, primarily mammals exhibiting osteological abnormalities but also 24 articulated human skeletons without any apparent defect. His friend, Dr. Wharton, is puzzled by the collection, but he humors Challoner's eccentricities and tends to him in his final illness. When Wharton inherits the collection on Challoner's death, the dark mystery that ties the collection together is finally revealed. (Summary by MaryAnn)

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M4B audio book (136mb)

Addeddate: 2010-01-03 17:40:15

Boxid: OL100020410

Call number: 3830

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Reviews (5)

Reviewer: sarahm - - October 4, 2013
Subject: I Can Almost Hear Vincent Price

I do not understand how this never became a Vincent Price movie.
Definitely macabre.
Great reading by MaryAnn

Reviewer: benefitsingers - - November 10, 2011
Subject: Creepy!

This was a really macarbre. It is a tale of vigilante justice and also early criminology. I liked the criminal anthropology aspect of it. I don't really ...

Reviewer: geonorman - - August 24, 2011
Subject: Enthralling!

I was captivated from beginning to end. Why has this gem eluded me for 50 years?
It's refreshing to have a main character so removed from stereotypes. ...

Reviewer: Kydiana - - February 11, 2010
Subject: Case lesson or satire?

I agree with TheBookworm's comments, except I'm not so sure the blatant racism which pervades the story isn't actually satire. Certainly, the "science" ...

Reviewer: TheBookworm - - January 31, 2010
Subject: Uttermost fun

Highly recommended crime story with a twist. Several twists, actually. Thanks to MaryAnn for her fine reading.
This listener found the protagonist's racism ...

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